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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Family Portrait with Scythe: Poems

Family Portrait with Scythe: Poems

Owens, James

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Biographies GeneralGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1947504207
ISBN13: 9781947504202
Publisher: Bottom Dog Pr
Published: Apr 1 2020
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.27 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
James Owens' stunning valediction, both for and forbidding mourning, slices with steely memory to the wet bone. Stumbling with a boy's ignorant gravity, Owens cannot right the unbalanced accounts of his miner father's sooty lungs, his parents' exhausted marriage--nor his own professed failings. Yet his keen eye in and of the natural world does lead to the scales balanced, if precariously--in belonging on the brief earth, in parsing spring from grief, in the good story of the body whose light becomes the shine of spirit. A master poet works this crescent blade, a master who embraces life's whole catastrophe as equally as he farewells it past.

--Linda Parsons, author of This Shaky Earth

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